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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Three questions upon which Trump presidency will be judged: Did he secure America’s borders? Did he restore industrial might of America? Did he take us out of and keep us out of more neocon wars?-Pat Buchanan

(continuing): "Enoch Powell’s warning, 50 years ago, about mass migration into
Europe, “Et thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno,” “I see the River
Tiber foaming with much blood,” is now seen as prophecy.

Yet if global elites are hoarding the largest slice of the
wealth of nations and a goodly slice of their political power, one
senses that they are an unloved crowd, and they are sitting on a
volcano.

The third unique Trump issue was his commitment to extricate us from
the Middle East wars into which Bush and Obama had entrenched us, and to
keep us out of any new wars. Trump also pledged to reach out to
Vladimir Putin and to Russia to avoid a second Cold War.

And if Trump is drawn into new wars with Iran or North Korea, or
reaches 2020 with U.S. forces still fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Syria, Yemen and Libya, he will be perceived as having failed.Yet the resistance of this city to giving up its vision of U.S.
global hegemony is broad and deep, for that vision is almost a defining
mark of our foreign policy elites. For them to give it up would be like
death itself.

The stunned reaction to Trump’s suggestion last week that we
will be leaving Syria after ISIS’s caliphate is destroyed, testifies to
how much their identify is tied up in this vision.

That Trump would accept an end to Syria’s civil war, with Bashar
Assad still in power, is intolerable. Yet how we can reverse that
reality without putting thousands of U.S. combat troops into Syria is
unexplained. In the last analysis, then, it is upon three questions that
the Trump presidency will be judged: